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December 17, 2019
Wrapping up 2019!
Just before the winter break, a flurry of publications! (ok, two, but that’s better than none!) After a long journey through the review process, I am so happy that this paper is finally published. It was led by Clarke Knight, who started the project as a Masters student with Ben Blonder and patiently and brilliantly…
August 13, 2018
Exciting new work coming soon, funded by an NSF CAREER grant!
A few months ago, I was notified that I got an NSF CAREER award! I’ve been sitting on the news for a while, while the details got worked out. But here’s the official announcement from UC Merced and the link to the award within the NSF Earth Sciences Division. Many thanks to NSF’s Sedimentary Geology…
June 8, 2018
Lots of excitement! Summer 2018 Lab News.
It’s been an exciting time in the Blois lab recently! * Jessica found out she was awarded tenure, which will become effective July 1st. * Eric recently had his first paper from his dissertation work accepted, forthcoming in the Journal of Biogeography. This paper explores the past potential range shifts among North American mammals, and…
April 9, 2018
Past and future climate novelty
We’ve got a new paper out! Collaborator Matt Fitzpatrick and Jessica, with other collaborators on our NSF-funded Community Paleomodeling project, co-lead a project to compare the estimates of future climate novelty with those from the past. Here’s a link to the paper. Spoiler alert: future climate novelty by AD 2100 meets or exceeds climate novelty…
November 14, 2017
New review paper on multiresponse algorithms!
Our review paper “Multiresponse algorithms for community-level modeling: review of theory, applications, and comparison to species distribution models” is available in Online Early today! This paper was spearheaded by Diego Nieto-Lugilde, a postdoc on the community paleomodels project with Matt Fitzpatrick. Check it out, and email Jessica if you need a pdf copy of the…